Foxy!

Last September for our 44th wedding anniversary, DH and I bought a print from Hester Cox, a local artist who works mainly in Collagraph . It was from an edition of 50 and was produced while she was working at a print studio in Sweden.

Then when we went to Marazion in October, I saw this lovely fellow in a gallery and went to look at it every day, eventually buying it before we came home.

Then ....I mentioned that I had accidentally bought something at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on my way home from Market Harborough - well here it is.

I think I have to stop now - my house is full and my purse is empty !
Next post will definitely be a home spun effort !


 

Market Harborough

Last weekend I was on a 'jolly' with some friends at a hotel in Market Harborough. The course was run by Crazy Mary who is a part time primary teacher in the midlands and a part time sewing and craft teacher. We worked from a kit which was easy on the packing - all we needed was in it except sewing machine and thread ! It wasn't really my sort of thing but I enjoyed the social time ! The piece was a quilted applique mat and I did learn lots from it ( viz - I am a rubbish quarter inch seam sewer !) and I will use the technique again to make something of my own.

The best though was a lady called Meryl who was wearing her name badge - I think we should all have one like this ! - well obviously not exactly like this as this is Meryl not me or you, but you know what I mean !

On the way back from the weekend, on the Monday, the weather was so fabulous, Sarah (my lovely chauffeurse ) and I stopped for lunch at the Yorkshire Sculpture park. The sun was so warm we were able to sit outside on the balcony (without coats) and eat - what a treat. We then had a lovely walk through the grounds and sat in the Deer Shelter Sky space to watch the blue blue sky. Lovely! It was a bit muddy underfoot and we weren't really dressed for a hike but the weather was too good to waste. I did manage to leave my camera in the car, so no pics but I did accidentally make a purchase in the shop which I will blog another time !

More garden stuff

More progress on our new structure -

We (the royal we !) have finished the trellising along the 'back' wall and at the sides have put less dense trellis - one for each of the three climbing roses I intend to plant in the spaces. I did think of leaving the spaces empty so I could plant a cordon apple tree in each space but decided I'd rather have scent ! I will need to dig out and replace some of the soil as roses don't like going where other roses have been. I will just exchange the soil with some from my raised beds - I'm sure they won't mind !